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Thursday, May 22, 2014 | 11:30 a.m. reception | Noon luncheon and program Interviewed by Chicago Tribune nation and world editor and former Washington bureau chief Kerry Luft. Based on eight years of living in Beijing, including five years as the China correspondent for The New Yorker, former Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune Evan Osnos writes as an on-the-ground witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In "Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, & Faith in the New China," Osnos describes the great collision now underway between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain...

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Thursday, May 22, 2014 | 11:30 a.m. reception | Noon luncheon and program
Interviewed by Chicago Tribune nation and world editor and former Washington bureau chief Kerry Luft.
Based on eight years of living in Beijing, including five

LOS ANGELES - Miles O'Brien, a science correspondent for PBS, had his left forearm amputated earlier this month after suffering what he thought was a minor blow to his limb while packing up some equipment, he said on Tuesday.
O'Brien, 54, a former...

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Welcome to the Chicago stop of the NFL’s "Hypocrisy Across America Tour."
The NFL, whose sport causes brain damage, paid off a bunch of former players who have brain damage without admitting it contributed to the brain damage. Anyone who...

Large, in charge and nobody's little Margie: Dwayne Johnson takes on the drug kingpins in "Snitch." Place your bets!
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It may not rank high in polls of voters' priorities compared to jobs and the economy, yet immigration has taken on a central role in the 2012 presidential campaign drama.
Republican presidential debates have been a contest to see who can sound more...

In its charting of a Chicago epidemic and belief in the power of street-level human empathy, the superb documentary "The Interrupters" comes to us at a time when the notion of conflict resolution has been sidelined utterly on the national...

If you're suffering Hollywood career doubts and need a little advice, there are worse people you could turn to than Christopher Nolan.
That's the situation Oscar-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister found himself in several years ago when he debated...

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NPR listeners may notice some new sounds starting Saturday. The radio institution has moved the weekend version of "All Things Considered" to its Los Angeles-area building in hopes of expanding its news scope outside of its hometown, insular...

Fires may rage and the U.N. roil, but let's scratch one hot-button concern off the national agenda: Al Jazeera America will not be overthrowing the American way of life any time soon.
During its first week on air, even with a news cycle heavy on Syria,...

(Reuters) - ESPN said it has pulled out of a documentary with PBS' "Frontline" about head injuries in the National Football League, but the Walt Disney co-owned sports network denied a media report that its decision was due to pressure from...

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CBS scored 46 nominations, and PBS scored 45 nominations in categories...

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